"No one can do me any good by loving me; I have more love than I need or could do any good with; but people do me good by making me love them - which isn't easy."

“One consequence of this is that people are expected to make it on their own by chasing clicks or building a brand. What a diminished vision that is.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

“I use rosewater a lot. I don't remember who taught me that, but that's my number one thing that I always use on my face and all over my body.”

Source : Source: www.marieclaire.com

“I have only one loyalty and that's to the immigrant community.”

Source : "An Illegal Alien's Guide to the Top Five Best Places to Live In America" by Bob Dane, www.foxnews.com. June 30, 2011.

“People are always going to identify with what it's like living in society and have people judge you in certain ways, and how you can be strong enough to be your own person and all those good things.”

Source : "Alessandro Nivola graduates to 'Mansfield Park' and beyond" by Jamie Allen, www.cnn.com. November 30, 1999.

“Injuries obviously change the way you approach the game.”

“Poetry can magnify experience.”

Source : May Swenson (1971). “More poems to solve”, Atheneum

“Youth is so exciting. It'll take over. I don't want to be swept away. I want to be with the taking-over people, right to the end.”

Source : "Nicolas Roeg: 'I don't want to be ahead of my time'". Interview with Ryan Gilbey, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2011.

“A year and a half after the end of the war and the German occupation, Paris was muted and looked bruised and forlorn. Everywhere I went, I sensed the tracks of the wolf that had tried to devour the city. But Paris proved inedible, as it had been ever since its tribal beginnings on an island in the Seine, the Ile de la Cité.”

Source : Paula Fox (2006). “The Coldest Winter: A Stringer in Liberated Europe”, p.33, Macmillan